Ending On a Good Note

On Friday in human geo it was are last day and we had our last test of human geo. I got a 97% and I thought it was really easy. This year in human geo has been great, I have learned a lot. My favorite thing that we learned was probably the last thing that we learned which was the Guns, Germs, and Steel video. Human geo was my favorite class and I am looking forward to the next semester of western civ. That's all for this semester, thank you for reading. 😎

Test Review

Today in human geo we reviewed for the test that will be on Friday. We also took notes on the video that we just watched. There are 14 out of 2 million animals that can be domesticate. These animals are: goats, sheep, pig, cows, horses, donkeys, Bactrim camels, Arabian camels, water buffalo, llamas, reindeer, yaks, mythos, and baleen cattle.    

video review

Today in human geo we went over the video that we watched yesterday. Jared Diamond's theory was called geographic luck. Like the people in Papua New Guinea, they could not choose to live where they do. Jared Diamond is a cultural anthropologist who went to UCLA.  

Guns, Germs, And Steel

Today in human geo we watched a video named Guns, Germs and Steel. It was about why some people are more wealthy than others. Jarod Diamond's theory is that in Europe and the middle east people had access to wheat and better farm animals than people in other places. All of these things spread on the same line of latitude and eventually spread to the Americas. I think that this is a good theory to the problem because things happen to land and forces people to move so this can cause wealth when the people get more diverse and learn more things along the way.

The Second Urban Revolution

On Friday in human geo we talked about the second urban revolution. A large scale movement of people to cities to work in manufacturing. This is made possible by the second agricultural revolution that improved food production and created a larger surplus. And also by industrialization, which encouraged growth of cities near industrial resources. The nature of manufacturing changed and locations changed too. Many factories have been abandoned which created "rust belts" out of once thriving factories.  

Division of Urbanization

Today in human geo we talked about division of urbanization. One of the divisions are the Greek Cities. By 500 BCE, Greeks were highly urbanized. They had a network of more than 500 cities and towns. They were urbanized on the mainland and on islands. Each city had an acropolis and an agora. Than we talked about the Roman Cities. This was a system of cities and small towns, linked together with hundreds of miles or roads and sea routes. Sites of Roman cities were typically used for trade. A Roman cities Forum combined the acropolis and agora into one space.   

Back To School

Today we came back to school from Christmas break and got right back to work. We started on Unit 6 and studied when and why did people start living in cities also known as urbanization. We learned that a city is  a conglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics. Urban is the buildup of the central city and the suburban realm the city and the surrounding environs connected to the city. Over 50% of the world lives in cities. A rural area can be urbanized quite quickly in the modern world.